That the World May Believe

  [320 words] Perhaps the Bible’s greatest enemy is preaching; preaching that makes the Bible appear to be a book of conflicting, contradictory doctrines. Robert Owen, the notorious atheist said in controversy with Alexander Campbell that the reason he was an atheist was because he had read so many conflicting doctrines all of which claimed the Bible as their source, so he decided the Bible was no good. Jesus prayed that all his disciples would be one as he and the Father are one so the world would believe that God sent him into the world. Adding human creeds and doctrines to the Bible is fatal; not only fatal to those who do the adding, but fatal to those deceived by such false teachings. The Bible does not teach many of the doctrines which men say it teaches. Jesus prayed that all his disciples be one through the word of…